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TO ALL PERSONS TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME: V

. Be it known that I, GYRUs FISHER, of Canton, in the county of Norfolk, and State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful Machine for Skeining Silk or other Thread or Cord; and I do hereby declare the same to befully described in the following specification, and represented in the accompanying drawings, of .vhichi i Figure 1 is a top view, and

Figure 2 a front elevation of it.

In such drawings, A is the frame of the lmachine. To this frame are ailxed two puppets Aor adjustable brackets, B B', which areto be so applied to the fra-me as to bev movable therein horizontally, both toward and away from each other, each being xed to the frame by a set-screw, a, going' through a slot, b, in the bracket or puppet.' Each bracket or puppet supports an arbor, C, which, at its lower end, terminates in a hook, D. There is a toothed pinion, e, to each arbor,` it being ,made to engage with one of two driving-gears, el d', which are arranged on a horizontal shaft, e, one of them, el, being so applied thereto as to be capable of being adjusted or moved' thereon lengthwise ot" it. A set-screw, e', in the hub of the gear, serves to iix the gear to the shaft, which should be provided with a groove arranged longitudinally in it, and to receive the end of the set-screw, so as to prevent the gear from revolving in the shaft. The shaft, also, should be capable of being moved lengthwise in its bearings. crank,`f, projecting from one of the gears d d', serves to enable a person to revolve the two gears simultaneously, so'as to etlect synchronousV rotations of the twohooks of the arbors. Furthermore, there is between., the two 'puppets B1 B a rotary flyer, D2, which, in form, is analogous to a crank. It projects from a. tubular sha-ft, g', arranged over the shaft c, and at right angles therewith.' The said Vshaft gcarries a bevel-gear, h, whehrengages with a bevel-pinion, z', fixed on the inner end ofV an inclined'shaft, k, which is supported in bearings in a bracket, Z, ext-ends over the next adjacent gear, d', and is provi'ded with a. crank, m. By revolving the crank the flyer will be caused to revolve in a circular path, going through the openings of the two hooks when the latter are horizontal, or in the positions as represented in the drawings. 'The flyer is composed of an arm, m, and a leg or pieceof metal, n, arranged at right angles, or thereabouts, to each other, and so applied together as to enable the part n to be moved onthe arm m, either nearer to or farther from the axis of the shaft g', from which the arm extends. A set-screw, o, going through a slot, p, in thepart n, and being screwed intorthe arm, serves to fix the flyer leg to such arm. This 'adjustment of the flyer leg becomes essential in order toadapt th'e flyer to operate with the hooks, which are alsoadjustable, as described, fiorV the` purpose of arranging them for `the production of skeins of different lengths. vOne of the hook arbors slidesl freely lengthwise in its bracket and pinion c, and is provided with a retraction spring, q, which is arranged between the pinion c of the arbor and ahead or nut, r, screwed or fixed on the outer end of the arbor. The pinion is con` nected with the arbor by a feather connection; and there is a small projection, r2, erected on 'the said bracket, for the thumb of` a person to bear against while he, with his fore-nger, may be in the act of forcing the arbor inward. The object of such a movement of the arbor'is to enable a skein, after its completion, to be readily detachedfrom the two hooks( A cylindrical box or case, F, is placed on and xed to one of the arbors of the hooks, so as to be concentric withsuch arbor. This box is in two parts or segments, s t, hinged together, and provided with a spring-catch, u,l the same being as'shown in g. 3, which is a section of the box and the arbor, such section beingtaken in a plane at right angles to the arbor.I The said box or case is to receive each of the skeins after being made, and without it being disconnected from the succeeding or preceding one.

In preparing the machine for winding a thread'i'nto a skein, the thread should be run through the shaft of the ilyer and thence'through guide-holes made in the leg of the flyer, from whence it should continue to one of `the hooks, both of which should be arrangedhorizontally, so that while lthe Aflyer may be inrevolution it may pass through their openings. On putting the ilyer in revolution it-will wind the thread upon the two hooks.. After a suilicient quantity may have been wound upon them, thel mass' extending from hook to hook is to be wound in a. helix by the thread, this being accomplished by putting the two hooks in revolution and guiding the thread along on the mass while it may be revolved. Each skein or twis't, as it is usually termed, after having been thus made, and without being separatedfrom the thread of the ilycr, may be removed from the hooks arid placed in the box or case F, and another skein should next be made in a similar way. Fishing-linea composed lof a. series o f connected skeins, are thus put up for soie in the market, and it is thc purpose of the machine to se prepare them, as well as to reduce silk threadto what is termed a twist."-- The box should have one or more 4 notches, 2, made in the upper edge of the inner side of the larger segment, such notch being for reception of the thread proceeding from the skein in the box to that of the iyer or on the hooks.

I make no claim tothe invention constituting lthe subject of Letters Patent of the United States numbered ZGS, and dated April 10, 1855 I claim the combination and arrangement-of the thumb-rest r2 with the neigt adjacent rotar'y hook and its puppet.

I also claim thearrangement of the driving-shaft K of the flvyer with respect to the'ye'r-shaft, and to the' driving-gear of the next adjacent rotary hook.

I also claim the combination, as weli as the arrangement, of the skein case F with the flyer, and the rotary hook'svond mechanism for revolving them, as described. I

' GYRS FISHER.

Witnesses:

R. H. EDDY,

F. P. HALE, Jr. 

